The High Court has today morning acquitted suspected serial killer Phillip Onyancha over the killing of Jackline Chepnegetich Misoi in 2008.
Justice Jessie Lessit ruled that the police did not conduct proper investigations, to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he killed Chepnegetich.
“All these are disheartening omissions the ones being failure to investigate a stain on the deceased door captured by the crime scene investigator, why would the police not follow this line of investigation?” the judge said.
“I am convinced that the deceased may have been murdered however there is no evidence that the accused was the author of her death.”
Additionally, Justice Lessit found that Onyancha’s alibi was credible.
Onyancha was charged in 2008 with the murders of Catherine Chelangat and Chepngetich.
He is accused of murdering Chelangat on November 22, 2008, at Karen, and Misoi on May 30, 2008, at the Mount Kenya building on Nairobi’s Kombo-Munyiri Road.
Onyancha allegedly confessed to killing 19 people but however denied three other murder charges where he was charged alongside Tobias Nyabuhanga Aradi and Douglas Obiero Makori.
They denied the charges of killing a 14-year-old boy Anthony Njirwa Muiruri and Jacqueline Chepngetich on May 30, 2008.
Police arrested Onyancha in 2010 after he confessed to killing over 17 people.